IB History Resources on the Web

NB. As you will no doubt be able to see, I have yet to complete the transferring and organizing of my Firefox bookmarks onto this page. But I have at least made a start, and I hope to get round to completing the rest of it soon! (CH, Sep '11)

General IB History sites:

http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/IB/index.htm (examples of exemplary 'Historical Investigations' and 'Extended Essays')
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#g/a (International School History's youtube channel - lots of good clips)
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/# (many excellent resources, requires membership and 'log-in' details however)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/a (AH's Russel Tarr's collection of very useful video clips)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/home.htm (archive of International School of Toulouse's course, plenty of high quality material)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/ibmater.html (Course website of Hvidfeldtska IB, Gothenburg, lots of good stuff)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/eurtopic.htm (European history site, covers many aspect of the IB syllabus)
https://vle.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/course/view.php?id=9 (Oakham school pages on CPEW, lots of excellent reading material)
http://www.casahistoria.net/ (many useful resources)
http://www.thecorner.org/home.htm (also many useful pages)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.asp (Modern History Sourcebook - links to a prolific range of sources)

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=005467188616711423489%3A8-q5tygtd0a&ie=UTF-8&q=&sa=Search (custom Google search for History websites - useful!)

Arab-Israeli Conflict:

http://www.historyteacher.net/Arab-Israeli_Conflict.htm (extensive collection of links to source material and other useful sites)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook54.asp (more links to key primary sources)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/340237.stm (BBC timeline of conflict, up to 2001)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/israel_and_palestinians/key_maps/ (BBC key maps of region over time)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,720353,00.html (flash diagram with excellent brief summary of conflict over time)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/ (BBC key source documents)
http://www.israel-palestina.info/arab-israeli_conflict.html (brief history of the conflict in 3,000 words)
http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/his.htm?OpenForm (UN site with the United Nations' perspective on the question of Palestine)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/History/HISTORY-+The+State+of+Israel.htm (Israeli government perspective on conflict)
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/The%20War%20of%20the%20Israeli%20Historians.html (article on Israeli historiographical debate)
http://www.massviolence.org/The-Historiography-of-the-1948-Wars?artpage=3 (article on Palestinian historiography of 1948)
http://www.dinur.org/resources/resourceCategoryDisplay.aspx?categoryID=783&rsid=478 (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sources on the various wars)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War (1948 war, wikipedia but this is extremely detailed)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/israel_and_the_1948_war.htm (1948 war)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5194576.stm (Suez crisis, 1956)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/causes_suez-crisis-1956.htm (Suez)
http://sixdaywar.co.uk/ (1967 war)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/457000/457035/html/ (BBC, 1967 guide)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6709173.stm (BBC, effects of 1967)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381358.stm (BBC, brief on 1973 war)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/yom_kippur_war_of_1973.htm (1973 war)

Documentaries/ video clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5MlMGU63CQ (BBC 'Birth of Israel')
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7213818846268605970 (PBS 'The Fifty Years War')
http://vimeo.com/3714871 (Al-Nakba, on the plight of the Palestinians, based on Benny Morris' revisionist interpretation of Israeli responsibility)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A2jQtzUbJo&feature=player_embedded (5 minute review of British mandate, essential viewing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw94Qtb7e-M&feature=player_embedded (brief history of Zionism, as above)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWOmjNzhNn4 (Suez, Czech arms deal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRkGqVgr_w (Suez, Aswan funding cancelled)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1Xah1qR14 (Suez, Nasser nationalises)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZM_GxsYiE (Suez, Sevres protocol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IMbR29qDk (Suez, Eden's justification)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlcMEEv1EY (Suez, US reaction)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_EDCTTKZ3g (Suez, Nasser victorious)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyPrTNorsP4 (Suez, Eden resigns)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8xpD4AtrI (Andrew Marr on Suez from Britain's perspective)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB_VNAOTm40&feature=related (PBS, Camp David clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1MDv4W2Tw8 (PBS, Sadat clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrr1_Fkcpy8 (legacy of the confict)

World War One:
General

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/historian/index.html (PBS, excellent page with links to articles by many leading historians on all aspects of WW1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/ (BBC menu page for WW1 - lots of good material)
http://www.firstworldwar.com/ (comprehensive and detailed treatment of many aspects of the war)
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/web.html (PBS bibliography of websites - extensive)
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/ (Collection of primary sources relating to WW1 - excellent for source analysis!)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm (national archives WW1 page - some wonderful source material from a British perspective)
http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Links_to_Other_WWI_Sites (absolutely exhaustive bibliography of other websites with WW1 material. Incredibly extensive and wide-ranging - not for the faint-hearted or those inclined to procrastination!)
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/ww1.html (Channel 4 site with a lot of interesting material)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/firstworldwar (Guardian section on WW1, some interesting bits and pieces)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/index.shtml (BBC GCSE menu-page, includes an interactive timeline)
http://www.network54.com/Forum/211833/thread/1088370788/last-1088381193/Colour+WWI+photos+(must+see!!) (colour photos from the war)

Causes

http://www.firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm (Causes of WW1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/origins_01.shtml (Essay on origins of conflict)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/wwi/index.htm (comprehensive treatment of causes from The Corner)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I (Wikipedia, very detailed)
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/WW1_CAUSES/index.htm (Active History, simulation game on how far Germany to blame for war)
http://www.johndclare.net/causes_WWI2_IDG_Long-term_egs.html (Spider diagram of long-term causes of war: ANIMAL)
http://www.johndclare.net/causes_WWI3_IDG_Crises1900-13.html (Spider diagram of short-term causes)
http://www.johndclare.net/causes_WWI2.htm (John D Clare on long-term causes, not hugely detailed as for GCSE but good to read nonetheless)
http://www.johndclare.net/causesWWI_Answer1.htm (JDC on historiography of causes)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s6_4hr/1870-1914.htm (International School History SOW on causes, including access to excellent resources)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/war/wwi/causes/causes.htm (IST SOW, key guiding questions and resources available)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/causeww1.htm (good overview page)
https://vle.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=3156 (Oakham IB school, excellent reading material)
http://www.ae.metu.edu.tr/~evren/history/texts/taylor1.htm (A.J.P. Taylor's railroad timetable theory)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/97/6XMR5BvZ2C4 (Outbreak of war in 1914)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/07AFB84BE6B838E4 (playlist of clips)

Nature, course and impact of war

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/ (BBC menu page for WW1 - lots of good material)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/western_front/index_embed.shtml (BBC animated map of course of WW1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/total_war_01.shtml (BBC, total war)
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/ch2_war.html (PBS, total war)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/teachers/tgkill.html (PBS teaching resources to accompany the excellent 'Killing fields' documentary)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s6_4hr/wwi_and_consequences.htm (ISH SOW on course, nature and effects of WW1, links to resources)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm (national archives WW1 page - some wonderful source material from a British perspective)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g4/cs4/g4cs4.htm (Britain's national archive on 'Women, Work and War')
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_employment_01.shtml (BBC essay on Women and the Home Front)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_combatants_01.shtml (BBC essay on Women and the military)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/ (BBC, Home Front and the Impact of War)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWhome.htm (Spartacus, Home Front menu-page)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/109/Dva7saPQZDk (Clip on shellshock and trench warfare)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/108/t9NIWXqxEUQ (Clip of impact of war on families at home)

Effects and results

http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/110/nxHpI6hLMxM (Clip on the end of the war)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/wwi/results.htm (Results of WW1, The Corner)
http://www.slideshare.net/cinbarnsley/wwi-women-283673 (Impact of war on women in Britain)
http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versailles.html (Full text of Versailles Treaty, including maps)
http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties1_Answer.htm (JDC on the Versailles settlement - lots of good sources with a range of views on the infamous treaty)
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/fling/quizzes/gcse_peacetreaties/quiz.htm (Active History, 'fling the teacher' quiz on post-war settlement)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_end_01.shtml (BBC article on the reasons for, and impact of, German defeat)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/versailles_01.shtml#six (Henig article on failures of Paris Peace Settlement)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/WWI/peacewwi.html (Hvidfeldtska IB on peace treaties)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/47/j1V_dnRjrrg ('Make Germany Pay' documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/2205A00BCC168DAA (playlist of clips on peace settlements)

World War Two:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ (BBC menu-page, some excellent material)
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/1900-2000a.html (Channel 4 menu-page, worth checking out)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/versailles_01.shtml#six (Henig article on failures of Paris Peace Settlement)
http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII1.htm (JDC unit on causes - excellent, even though for GCSE level)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s6_4hr/1935-1945.htm (ISH SOW on lead up to and causes of war)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/WWII/causgen.html (Hvidfeldtska IB on causes)
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/causes.htm (basic overview of causes)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/causes_world_war_two.htm (as above, with links to further pages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8pPmZm-zs-k (on League of Nations)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/League%20of%20Nations/lon.html (good IB page on the League of Nations)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_gathering_storm_01.shtml (BBC article on Churchill and appeasement)
http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII1_sandiegotaylorthesis.html (JDC on the 'Taylor thesis')
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~semp/origins.htm (excellent web article by Ruth Henig on the historical debates over the origins of WW2 - a must read!)
http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII1_Stellenbosch.htm (student notes on causes of the war)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II (Wikipedia, but detailed overview)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_foreign_policy_%28historiographic_debate%29 (Wikipedia on historiography of Nazi foreign policy)
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1969/jul-aug/detwiler.html (academic essay on origins of the war, from 1969, looking at how much blame should be apportioned to Hitler)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUngG2CRYdY (Video summarising the Taylor thesis and its significance)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/61/wfIXJAkmyHc (Hitler's foreign policy aims)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/1/9qsLoZQIQhY (Clip on appeasement)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/2/8pPmZm-zs-k (People's Century film on League of Nations)

http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/western_europe/europe/europe_at_war.htm (excellent page on course of war)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/women_at_war_01.shtml (BBC, war and women)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s7_4hr/1945-50.htm (impact of WW2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHRiU5iXh-s (End of WW2)

Chinese Civil War and rule of Mao:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mao_zedong.shtml (BBC, brief bio)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/mao.htm (BBC overview pages on RTP and rule of Mao)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/china/1900-49.htm (IST SOW on CCW)
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp#China%27s%20Disaster:%201840-1949 (links to an extensive range of sources relating to China, 1840 - 1949)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s7_4hr/1950-60.htm (reasons for CCP victory in CCW and impact of Mao's rule, Great Leap Forward etc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5zGz730gAI (China and the rise of Mao)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjkZb90Os94 (as above)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/mao.htm (BBC overview pages on RTP and rule of Mao)
http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/samplep02 (Oxford Companion to Politics, entrance on Mao)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/china/maoschina.htm (IST SOW, Mao's rule)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/greatleap/ (PBS, Great Leap Forward, notes from 'People's Century' doc)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8279176.stm (Art and Politics in China)
http://www.morningsun.org/index.html (Excellent site on the Cultural Revolution)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s7_4hr/1960-73.htm (Cultural Revt)
http://chineseposters.net/ (excellent collection of propaganda posters)
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp#China%20Since%20World%20War%20II (links to extensive range of sources from 1949 to the present)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-r8YFQZgDI&feature=player_embedded (Mao, hero or villain?)

Spanish Civil War:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548wn (BBC 'In Our Time', excellent radio discussion incl. Paul Preston)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/causes_spanish_civil_war.htm (Causes of the war)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Spanish-Civil-War.htm (Spartacus SCW menu)
https://www2.bc.edu/~heineman/maps/SpCW.html (maps of the war)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/spain/scw_index.htm (IST unit of work on SCW)
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/scw/photessay.htm (photo-essay of the war, fascinating and excellent source material)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/spaincw.htm#franco (excellent analysis)
http://www.george-orwell.org/Homage_to_Catalonia/index.html (E-text of the classic George Orwell piece, 'Homage to Catalonia', well worth a read!)
http://www.george-orwell.org/Looking_Back_On_The_Spanish_War/0.html (Orwell essay, 'Looking back on the Spanish Civil War', as a participant in the war and in the wider ideological struggles of the 1930s and 40s definitely an interesting read)

http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/E830EBB4DE7BEFD9 ('playlist' of clips)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015290670684299354#docid=5642767425050474741 (Excellent Granada documentary on the causes of the war, includes many interviews with participants)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015290670684299354#docid=561355335066465403 (as above, but dealing with Foreign intervention in the war)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015290670684299354#docid=-2321856533482549349 (as above, but on Franco and the Nationalists)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015290670684299354#docid=-3346919152779207389 (as above, on the end of the conflict)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015290670684299354#docid=-5904180592045722602 (Ken Loach's 'Land and Freedon' - obviously deeply partisan, and for me deeply parasitic on Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia', but a good source nonetheless)

Tsarist Russia:

https://sites.google.com/site/ibhistoryrussia/syllabus-overview---imperial-russia (detailed IB revision notes for topics from 1855 - 1917)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/russia.html (Hvidfeldtska IB menu page on Russia, with links to notes)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/rustime1.html (timeline, 1825 - 1894, including population details from 1897 census)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia1.htm (good overview of the reigns of AII, AIII and NII)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/russia/revo1905.htm (The Corner, brief overviews of AII, AIII and NII)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.asp (Links to primary sources)
http://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Table_of_Contents#Nineteenth_Century_Russia (primary sources)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Jrl3tVqjs ('Russia: land of the Tsars' documentary, intro to imperial Russia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=so-xals0oNA (as above, 'land of the Tsars', from Nicholas I onwards - excellent on autocracy and fear of Enlightenment calls for 'liberty, equality, fraternity' from the population. A good starting point for this unit of work on the demise of Tsardom)

https://sites.google.com/site/ibhistoryrussia/syllabus-overview---imperial-russia/alexander-ii (AII revision notes, including 'History Today' articles)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/alexand2.html (Hvidfeldtska IB notes on AII)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia (wikipedia, fairly comprehensive on AII)
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/Russhist.HTML (primary source: full text of the emancipation edict)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9b2 (BBC 'in our time' radio show on AII's assassination, incl. Orlando Figes)

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/alexbio.html (good biography and discussion of AIII's reign)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia (Wikipedia on AIII)
https://sites.google.com/site/ibhistoryrussia/syllabus-overview---imperial-russia/alexander-iii (AIII revision notes, including excellent 'Modern History Review' article)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/alex3mor.html (Hvitfeldtska notes on AIII)

https://sites.google.com/site/ibhistoryrussia/syllabus-overview---imperial-russia/nicholas-ii (IB revision notes on NII, including past exam questions)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nicholas_ii.shtml (BBC brief intro)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia (NII on wikipedia: very detailed, including assessments of his reign)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/russia/revo1905.htm (The Corner, discussion of causes and results of 1905)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/student_work/essays/wilcox_1905_revolution.htm (How did the Tsar survive 1905? Excellent student essay)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/the1905revolutionrev1.shtml (BBC GCSE bitesize on 1905)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-abdication-of-tsar-nicholas-ii-in-1917/5672.html (BBC clip of the Tsar's abdication)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/russia/february_rev1.shtml (BBC causes of Feb revt.)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/russia/revo1917.htm (The Corner, causes of 1917 revolutions)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia.htm (Good overview of 1917 revolutions)
http://ibhistorycrhs.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ib-history-russian-revolution-smart-notebook-notes.pdf (timeline leading up to and notes on 1917 revolutions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFilsLo6OI (Yale university lecture on the Romanovs and the Russian Revolution)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/37/VmKigi4NQBQ (Film on February Revolution)

Lenin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/lenin_vladimir.shtml (BBC, brief bio)
http://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Lenin%2C_What_is_to_be_Done (primary source: 'what is to be done?')
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml (Excellent BBC essay, from 1914 through to Civil war and allied intervention)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/s-russia.htm#lenin-era (The Corner)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/ (links to primary sources and texts written by Lenin)
http://www.stel.ru/museum/Lenin.htm (Lenin museum, fascinating if favourably predisposed towards Lenin)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.asp (Links to primary sources)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/russia/1917.htm (IST SOW on 1917 revolutions)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/russia/marxism/marxism.htm (IST on Marxism and ideology)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/russia/russia1918-24.htm (IST SOW on Lenin's rule)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia.htm (Good overview of 1917 revolutions and Lenin's rule)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/russia.html (Hvidfeldtska IB menu page on Russia, with links to notes)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/f/12/iGE6T3SRNAs ('Lenin - Revolutionary' documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/f/15/mMGrIwLj7gU (documentary on October Revolution, including some dramatic reconstruction)

Stalin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml (BBC, brief bio)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/s-russia.htm#stalin-era (The Corner)
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/english/ib/Russia/russia.html (Hvidfeldtska IB menu page on Russia, with links to notes)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/ (links to primary sources and texts written by Stalin)
http://academic.shu.edu/russianhistory/index.php/Stalin_on_Rapid_Industrialization (primary source: Stalin on rapid industrialisation, 1931)
http://www.stel.ru/stalin/ (very interesting Russian site on Stalin)
http://www.jhindin.com/posters/ (Stalinist propaganda posters)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/09/putin_and_stalin_revising_real.html (interesting article looking at contemporary re-evaluations of Stalin in Putin's Russia continuing the Stalinist tradition of re-writing history as a handmaiden of the state)
http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html (the Purges)
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/index.htm (re-writing history by falsifying photos - fascinating!)
http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/indv2/stalin.htm (Cult of personality)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9118985704353138889 ('Stalin -man of steel' documentary)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/stalin_01.shtml ('Humanising Stalin?', excellent BBC article by Simon Sebag Montefiore)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7719633.stm (BBC article on 'whitewashing Stalin')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUZEO7nZnw&feature=relmfu (Yale university lecture on Stalinism)
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/world-war-2-behind-closed-doors/ (On Stalin's role in the Second World War)

Origins of the Cold War:

http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s7_4hr/1945-50.htm (ISH SOW)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/G3/cs1/default.htm (did Stalin cause the Cold war?)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm (The Corner, on causes of the Cold War)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/coldwar/cold_war.htm (IST SOW on Cold War)

http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/20/fT0YgjwEQjw (Germany after WW2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2PUIQpAEAQ (Churchill's Iron Curtain speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZidBq8QS-g (The Berlin Blockade)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAJUmR7Glq8 (as above)
http://www.cosmolearning.com/documentaries/cold-war-by-cnn-perspectives/ (CNN's excellent 'The Cold War' documentary series, available to watch online here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYCplyBknI&feature=related (Introductory documentary)

Khrushchev:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml (BBC, brief bio)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/central_eastern_europe/destalinisation.htm (essay on De-Stalinisation, with example of Poland)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSkhrushchev.htm (Spartacus page)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html (Text of the 'Secret Speech')
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/khrushchev-begins-his-rise-to-power (K's rise to power, brief analysis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAqkhb82js (Introductory documentary)

Weimar Germany:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_end_01.shtml (BBC article on Germany at the end of WW1)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/n-german.htm (The Corner)
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm (good overview and analysis)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/weimar_germany.htm (History learning site - menu page for this topic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#The_Weimar_Republic
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/hist/weilin.html (links to useful sites)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/140/Ob8B5YNG2VE (Clip on the 1919 Spartacist uprising)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/139/URp9JECpt6M (Clip on the 'Golden Years' of the republic)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/F87017D285FBAEBC (playlist of useful clips)

Hitler:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/adolf_hitler#p009cmpd (BBC, bio and excellent video clips with A.J.P. Taylor)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_01.shtml (BBC essay on Hitler's RTP)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml (BBC on Nazi propaganda - obviously excellent for source analysis)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/n-german.htm (The Corner)
http://www.csustan.edu/History/Faculty/Weikart/gerhist.htm (links to various primary sources)
http://www.internationalschoolhistory.net/eeb3/s6_4hr/1935-1945.htm (how popular were the Nazis? Plus, Hitler's FP - ISH module)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/17/ian-kershaw-life-writing-interview (interview with Ian Kershaw, some good snippets of historiography)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/ (BBC 'Genocide under the Nazis' menu-page - some excellent articles on the Holocaust)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5546778532313899424 ('The Nazis: A Warning from History', Laurence Rees' award-winning documentary on Hitler's RTP)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/9/T1uoB1BHScA (BBC History File documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/99/hC05SbnDRSc (Nazi policies towards women)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/103/nQE9lvkyo0w (Nazi school curriculum)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/61/wfIXJAkmyHc (Hitler's foreign policy aims)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/102/A7m6b1cyRyo (Nazi economic policy)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/101/YIHU3OdWmT8 (Nazi persecution of the gypsies)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#p/u/100/Ww800PzlJ6Y (Nazi eugenics)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/f/163/WE2gp9R50ZM (Goebbels and propaganda)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/f/175/Yl2iIHRE1ng (opening scenes of 'Triumph of the Will', that key document of Nazi filmography)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/f/173/-grtEk9oBAU (importance of Hitler's skills as an orator)

Mussolini:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mussolini_benito.shtml (BBC, brief bio)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/benito_mussolini.htm (brief biography)
http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/f-italy.htm (The Corner on Fascist Italy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini (Wikipedia)
http://www.benitomussolini.info/gallery/ (Images of il duce)

Collective security:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/versailles_01.shtml#six (Henig article on failures of Paris Peace Settlement)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/533B7B48ECE1CEEB (playlist of clips for League of Nations in 1920s)
http://www.youtube.com/user/russeltarr#g/c/50F60A1C91373BE4 (playlist for League in 1930s)
http://vimeo.com/20788335 (League of Nations in the 1920s)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/2/8pPmZm-zs-k (People's Century film on League of Nations)
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntSchoolHistory?ob=5#p/u/1/9qsLoZQIQhY (Clip on appeasement)

Study skills, essay writing tips etc:

http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/skills/essay/index.htm (IST page, well worth looking at, esp. discussion of key terms used in essay questions)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/skills/essay/toptentips.htm (Ten essay tips - how to write good exam essays in History)
http://www.internationalschooltoulouse.net/ibhistory/skills/essay/pointing.htm (article on the importance of actually answering the question in an essay!)

Revision:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ (many useful revision 'games' on this BBC site designed for GCSE)
http://www.johndclare.net/FactualRevise.htm (JDC, factual revision through maps!)
http://www.biggerplate.com/mindmaps/j418011/the-triggers-of-world-war-ii-mind-map (Hitler's FP and lead-up to WW2: mind-map)

General History sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/

History resources on the Web

IB History Resources on the Web